One time during a game a rental player accidently shot a team mate in the hopper, the ball bounced off the hopper but it completely blew off the side of the hopper, broke most of the paint inside too. it was a standard 200 viewloader gravity hopper. the paint fired was different colour then paint in the hit hopper, we even found the unbroken bounced ball after too.

If people are getting bounces from your paint; cool it. Put your pods of paint in the fridge for 20 minutes before you play or keep them in a cooler, they'll break on anything. If you cool them way too much they might dimple, keep that in mind.

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Boris- heavy is good, heavy is reliable, if it does not work you can hit them with it.

I understand that you want to make the shell more brittle, but I think that is a bad idea. Bounces are just a part of the game. I use markers that can shoot brittle paint because I got fed up with bounces from paint that my Tippmanns could shoot.

I use really thick shelled paint (Draxxus Midnight) and sometimes it doesn't break on straight shoulder hits, arm hits, and even a stick once. Shoots straighter than i can point though, so its what i use at $35 a case.

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Boris- heavy is good, heavy is reliable, if it does not work you can hit them with it.

Getting bounces is great when it happens to you but it sucks when you hit someone and it bounces. I wonder I'd anyone has ever done tests on pads to see how well they stop paintballs from breaking on them.

I played on MLK day and it was 8 degrees at the start of the day. One game, A kid told me I hit him in the head 5 times and they all bounced. Ref was right behind him and saw them all. Kid told me he wished they all broke(or at least the first one anyway.

The last time I played was indoor field paint only. About 40% of anything that hit me bounced. All over, arms, chest, legs and one gun hit.

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Even a bad day paintballing is better than a good day at work.

I was out for a private party at cpx and our party decided to play against another party.they had about twice as much but it was there first time and everyone was using 98s except for a few people on there team had speedball guns so we start winning and the ref grabs one of the guys guns that in the dead box and starts shooting at me. I wore baggy stretchy shorts that day and the balls bounced off my shorts right under my crotch

I have had only 2 times getting a ton of bounces. Those were against some milsig guys. They were using really hard paint. I was shot 3 times in my knee pads, all bounced.(yes my knee has a habit of sticking out.) Then I rushed a guy in a bunker and he shot me 4 times from 3 feet away 3 bounced. (the game we played that time arm hits didn't count) Then I shot him and he freaked out, no paint though.